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BRITISH BIRDS. 
BROWN TERN. 
{Sterna nigra, Lin. Sterna Fufca, Ray . — Brown Terti^ 
Willougliby. Brown Gull, Pennant.) 
The whole underfide white ; the upper brown % 
the wings partly brown, partly afh-colour: the 
head black : the tail not forked. Thefe birds fly 
in companies.’’ 
This fliort and imperfed account is all that or- 
nithologifts have been enabled to give of this doubt- 
ful fpecies, which has found its way into notice 
merely from the communications of Mr Johnfon * 
to Mr Ray, copied by the latter into his Synopfis 
of Birds, hz, 
* Mr R. Johnfon, the correfpondent, friend, and affiftant of 
the immortal Ray, was vicar of Brignal in Yorklhire. He died 
there on the 7 th of May, 1695, aged 66 years. 
